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Suboxone and Methadone were both created to help opiate addicts either through maintenance programs or detoxes. Methadone came first and was used to help heroin addicts stop the search for their high on the streets as well as keeping them IV use. Suboxone was created for anyone addicted to opiates and while it can be used as a maintenance drug is more commonly used in an opiate detox where eventually the individual will be clean of all drugs including the Suboxone. Methadone and Suboxone are both opiates. Methadone and Suboxone are distant cousins and will be entering the boxing ring of substances for a Substance Showdown. This substance showdown will have three rounds based on: health effects, insidiousness and legality, and withdrawal. The winner of each round will be the substance that is considered “worst”. Who will come out on top?

Let the substance showdown begin!!

ROUND 1 HEALTH EFFECTS

Suboxone: Like other narcotic medicines, Suboxone can slow your breathing. Death may occur if breathing becomes too weak.

Methadone may cause other side effects such as respiratory depression and death.

The winner of ROUND 1 HEALTH EFFECTS IS METHADONE: While both methadone and Suboxone have some adverse health effects even when taken as prescribed or abused; methadone’s health effects are much more severe and frequent which makes it our winner for this round.

ROUND 2 INSIDIOUSNESS AND LEGALITY

Suboxone: Suboxone and its active ingredient Buprenorphine are listed as Schedule III substances under the Controlled Substances Act. This is because it is allowed not only to be prescribed for medical use in the treatment of pain but also in the treatment of opioid dependence. Because Suboxone is so frequently prescribed for the treatment of opioid dependence it is considered safe by many of its abusers and is also in some cases being touted as being “safe”. The reason for this is because it supposedly has a lower potential for abuse and dependence. Many people see Suboxone as a safe drug to take in comparison with heroin or something of the like. The truth is substituting Suboxone with heroin, while it may be safer than heroin it is still not safe. Suboxone and its active ingredient are highly addictive and many people who are trying to get off of opiates using Suboxone soon find themselves with a bad Suboxone habit. Also because Suboxone can be prescribed to opiate addicts it has a high potential for being abused or sold to individuals who don’t even a prescription for it. Suboxone has managed to find a way into the underground illicit drug market and is used by many opiate addicts without prescription that can’t find anything else and/or don’t want to suffer withdrawal. This makes Suboxone very insidious.

Methadone: Methadone is a schedule II substance under the Controlled Substances Act which means that it less legal, if you will, than Suboxone. Methadone is insidious because it is just as addictive as heroin and gives its users the same high. It really does nothing helpful except to get people to stop using drugs such as heroin. Which is great, but is it really that great? Methadone has made its way to street and recreational users through methadone maintenance and methadone clinics that hand it out for a certain price. Methadone is very dangerous and easy to overdose on but because it is prescribed and touted as being safer than other opiates many people take it thinking they are better off when this just isn’t the case. This makes methadone probably one of the most insidious narcotics out there right now.

AND THE WINNER OF ROUND 2 IS METHADONE: While Suboxone is insidious, it is not nearly as dangerous as methadone nor is it as addictive. Both methadone and Suboxone are supposedly safer alternatives but Suboxone actually is, whereas methadone is just as dangerous as any other opiate out there; just as addictive too.

AND THE WINNER OF ROUND 3 IS METHADONE! Methadone definitely comes out on top even though Suboxone has a pretty nasty withdrawal too. The reason methadone wins this round is due to the fact that it lasts much longer and also can be fatal.

THE WINNER OF THIS SUBSTANCE SHOWDOWN BY A LANDSLIDE IS: METHADONE

Methadone not only has more health effects, insidiousness and withdrawal it is all around a much more potent drug than Suboxone. That is what makes it the clear winner of today’s substance showdown between the two. Methadone won this battle with a real knockout. Suboxone is a lightweight.

If you, or someone you know, is struggling with addiction to Suboxone or Methadone, call us right now at 800-951-6135.